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What issues did president Nixon's election platform focus on?
President Nixon's platform focused on a few economic and war related issues. He focused on the economy, the dollar, and restoring America as a leader in the world. The most important issue Nixon focused on was ending the Vietnam war.
Was The New Deal concentrated power in the hands of executive?
Yes! it broke down congresses power and focused on giving power to the executive branch aka the president.
What Washington's first acts as president was to select a group of men to give him advice?
When Washington was elected President, his first acts included establishing the federal judicial before he focused on the executive branch. He created the Cabinet including Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury to surround himself with a team of consultants.
Both president Truman's federal employee loyalty program and senator Joseph McCarthy's hearings aimed to?
Both the Federal Employee Loyalty Program, as well as Joseph McCarthy's hearings, were focused on rooting out communist influence in the US government. McCarthy's hearings sometimes also focused on evaluating the security risk of homosexuals in government.
Who was president when the city of Washington was captured and burned by the british?
James Madison was the president in 1814 when this event occurred. The British did not exactly capture the city. It was a hit-and-run attack. They left after torching some of the key government buildings and focused on Fort McHenry and the harbor of Baltimore which had much greater strategic importance.
